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"Starting with flags that we know, this captivating history explains the origins and hidden meanings of flags, taking a chatty but always entertaining path through this universal subject. Each chapter starts with a well-known flag and shows how that flag led to a number of other flags - so, for example, how the French tricolor led to the red, white and green tricolor of Italy, and then to a host of other tricolors in different parts of the world. Many of the over 200 colour illustrations feature alternative versions of existing flags - the flags that might have been - such as the red Canadian maple leaf between two bands of blue, representing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans"--Publisher's description.
The triclour world -- The Union Jack -- Bad vexillological pmen -- When flags are crossed -- The bird heritage of the Romans -- Vexillological tango -- American dream -- Orange stripes -- Grim reaper flags -- Six-pointed stars -- Horizontal stripes of Easter Europe -- Pan-African colours -- Pan-Arabic colours -- Crescent on the flags -- The sun on the flags -- Distinctive African flags -- British Island colonies.